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Measurement

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112 Quote(s) Found

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Contempt is special. If you can measure contempt, then all of a sudden you don’t need to know every detail of [a] relationship.

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Data is dangerously prone to creating measurement cultures. But what we really need is effectiveness culture.

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A measurement culture is obsessed by process; while an effectiveness culture is obsessed by results.

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A good website holds the viewer’s attention, and the best measure of her attention is how long a single page engages her.

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…have you had enough of the numbers? They are important, and should neither be ignored nor blithely accepted.

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…feeling comfortable or dodging criticism should not be our measure of success… what really matters is succeeding.

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Complexity means that, in spite of our increased abilities to track and measure, the world has become, in many ways, vastly less predictable.

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Attaching a number to anything turns it into a game.

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Anytime you attach a measure to something, you’ve laid the groundwork for people to create all kinds of games, good and bad.

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…being measured by results is a much better measure than time at your desk.

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